Norman Daniel "Dutch" Cota, Sr. (May 30, 1893 – October 4, 1971) was a senior United States Army officer who fought during World War II. Cota was heavily...
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Allison, USMC in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Brigadier General Norman Cota in The Longest Day (1962), Lieutenant Colonel Barney Adams in Man in...
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football player Ed Cota, American basketball player Humberto Cota, Mexican baseball player Leonel Cota Montaño, Mexican politician Norman Cota, United States...
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attack on the beach at Omaha. An apocryphal story tells of when General Norman Cota, leading the 29th Infantry Division, met with Major Max F. Schneider...
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water because they thought it would be too cold. Robert Mitchum, as Gen. Norman Cota, became disgusted with their trepidation and jumped in first, at which...
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Gibney's uncomprehending attitude and asked to speak to Major General Norman Cota, the commander of the 28th Infantry Division, but was denied. Gibney...
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war film about the D-Day landings in Normandy. He portrayed General Norman Cota, rallying demoralized troops and blasting a path from Omaha Beach. The...
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Infantry Regiment near Sourdeval, Normandy, France. He was succeeded by Norman Cota. Wharton was temporarily interred in France. He was later buried at Arlington...
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sentence was reviewed and approved by Major General Norman Cota, the division commander. General Cota's stated attitude was "Given the situation as I knew...
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Twelfth United States Army Group. Soon afterwards, Brigadier General Norman Cota was transferred from assignment as assistant division commander of the...
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group, including the 29th Division assistant commander Brig. Gen. Norman "Dutch" Cota, was able to land relatively unscathed. Further east, the strongpoint...
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, Daniel Noce, Charles S. Kilburn, Mark W. Clark, Ernest N. Harmon, Norman Cota, Charles H. Gerhardt, George H. Weems, William Kelly Harrison Jr., John...
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Rampan. An operations group was placed under the direction of General Norman Cota to form Task Force C. Around 3:00 p.m., the tanks along the road to Isigny...
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Omaha Beach as part of the invasion of Normandy, then-Brigadier General Norman Cota (assistant division commander of the 29th Infantry Division) approached...
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instead of sending more men to die. And it was then and there that General Norman Cota, Assistant Division Commander of the 29th Infantry Division, gave the...
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men and equipment, the division, now commanded by Brigadier General Norman Cota, formerly the Assistant Division Commander (ADC) of the 29th Infantry...
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Division (Maj. Gen. Louis A. Craig) 28th Infantry Division (Maj. Gen. Norman Cota) 29th Infantry Division (Elements) (Maj. Gen. Charles H. Gerhardt) 78th...
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1934 Ernest N. Harmon, Class of 1934 Jonathan Wainwright, Class of 1934 Norman Cota, Class of 1936 John R. Hodge, Class of 1936 Richard Marshall, Class of...
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December 1944, the Wehrmacht surprisingly began the Ardennes Offensive. Norman Cota, the commander of the 28th Infantry Division and his staff left Wiltz...
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division commander Brigadier General Norman Cota and Canham. They rallied the men for the attack and around 08:30 Cota discovered an exit off the beach,...
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States Dutch Ruppersberger (born 1946), U.S. congressman from Maryland Norman Cota (1893–1971), US Army major general in World War II Petrus Hugo (1917–1986)...
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Matthew Ridgway, Bryant Moore, Ernest N. Harmon, William C. McMahon, Norman Cota, Laurence B. Keiser, William W. Eagles, William Kelly Harrison Jr., Frederick...
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Barksdale, and historian Lawrence C. Wroth, generals Milton Reckord, Norman Cota, Charles D. W. Canham, and Donald Wilson. Major Thomas D. Howie who commanded...
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India Bill Cooke 1970, National Football League player Major General Norman Cota 1915, portrayed by actor Robert Mitchum in the 1962 movie classic The...
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became U.S. Army Chief of Staff) Ernest N. Harmon, William W. Eagles, Norman Cota, Laurence B. Keiser, John M. Devine, Albert C. Smith, Frederick A. Irving...
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Brigadier General Perry, Assistant Commanding General, Major General Norman Cota, 28th Division; Major General Gaffey, and Lieutenant Colonel Campbell...
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commentator. Both of his paternal great-grandparents were Croatian immigrants. Norman Cota, United States Army general Louis Cukela, United States Marine, two-time...
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get the hell out of here. Taylor is sometimes confused with General Norman Cota, who was also on the beach that day, but in a different sector with a...
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Another notable officer under his command was his chief of staff, Colonel Norman Cota, who would later become a major general and be remembered for his leadership...
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Humphrey O-2605: George S. Patton O-3822: Dwight Eisenhower O-5284: Norman Cota O-12043: Leslie Groves O-20362: William P. Yarborough O-143128: Archibald...
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